FredrikHolmqvist
Hello!
I’ve been trying to get Phoenix to compile for a week now, and my sanity is slipping through my fingers. Any suggestions on getting this to compile? I’ve been able to run Phoenix on this machine previously a few years back.
mix phx.new test
Elixir 1.9.1
OTP 21
Phoenix 1.5.1
Node 12.17.0
NPM 6.14.5
I’ve tried:
npm install
npm install node-sass
npm uninstall node-sass
npm rebuild
npm rebuild node-sass
Deleting node_modules
Installing brunch
mix phx.new --no-brunch
Clearing NPM cache
Creating new projects on different drives
Running with admin rights
CMD / PowerShell / GIT
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al2o3cr
Sounds like you’ve tried all the standard things that could be going wrong on Windows; can you post an example of the error you’re getting?
mindok
I think that’s the natural outcome of living with Win10. If it wasn’t for superior performance of Powerpoint & Excel on Windows (which I have to use periodically) I’d give up on it for good.
…anyway…
I have the latest Phoenix running under Win 10. Webpack seems to be more or less behaving but I do recall having to fight with something to get it up and running - let us know what errors you are getting and it might jog my memory. Unfortunately I did my initial commit after it was running so don’t have a record of the change.
c4710n
In short, replace node-sass with sass (dart sass), dart sass doesn’t need to rebuild anything.
In details, replace
"node-sass": "xx.xx.xx"with"sass": "^1.22.10"inpackage.json. Then, sass-loader will use sass (dart sass) automatically.Give it a try.
c4710n
phx_new 1.5.1 doesn’t provide
--no-brunchoption anymore. I am wondering why your output is showing brunch related things. That’s weird.You need to check whether your phx_new is 1.5.1, too.
FredrikHolmqvist
Changing the dependency to be sass worked! I am beyond happy, now I can develop my favorite webframework on my main machine. Thank you!
c4710n
Hooray!
newpain01
This is not only Windows specific, I was getting the same error on a Mac running Mojave today and also resolved it by replacing
node-sasswithsass.derek-zhou
node-sass has always been a sore point. A few months ago I took the effort to rip them all off from my projects and rewrite my style sheets in PostCSS + tailwindCSS, which has more functionalities and less hassles. Couldn’t be happier.
borop18
Surprised no one fixed this already, I am also not able to build the assets with Phoenix 1.5.7 on a Mac.
sergio-ocon
There is a thread with solutions for Mac here: